Excursions and Adventures in New South Wales: With Pictures of Squatting and of Life in the Bush : an Account of the Climate, Productions, and Natural History of the Colony, and the Manners and Customs of the Natives, with Advice to Immigrants, Etc, Том 1W. Shoberl, 1851 - Всего страниц: 294 |
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... England -Lake Innis - Convicts - Specials and Invalids - The " Wilson " and Plains - Trip up Piper's Creek -Expedition to the " McLeay " -Description of the River and Country - Of the Sawyers on it - Advan- tages Mentioned , and General ...
... England -Lake Innis - Convicts - Specials and Invalids - The " Wilson " and Plains - Trip up Piper's Creek -Expedition to the " McLeay " -Description of the River and Country - Of the Sawyers on it - Advan- tages Mentioned , and General ...
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... England - Different kinds of Grain— Roots for Port Macquarie - Sheep Stations - Lady Settlers - The Banks of the Clarence - The Beardy and Byron Plains - Return to Salisbury Plains- Purchase of a Dog - Vigilance at Night - Stray Cattle ...
... England - Different kinds of Grain— Roots for Port Macquarie - Sheep Stations - Lady Settlers - The Banks of the Clarence - The Beardy and Byron Plains - Return to Salisbury Plains- Purchase of a Dog - Vigilance at Night - Stray Cattle ...
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... England had disgorged their inmates , double - ironed , and set them to shake their manacles in your face . If you tread on that , a thousand to one it goes off by the run ( which you will never do again ) and takes you with it , or ...
... England had disgorged their inmates , double - ironed , and set them to shake their manacles in your face . If you tread on that , a thousand to one it goes off by the run ( which you will never do again ) and takes you with it , or ...
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... England , though it turned out afterwards that it was not so . April 5th . Fine weather and fair wind . Off the coast of Ushant ( an island belonging to France ) , and about to enter the Bay of Biscay , when we were obliged to run out ...
... England , though it turned out afterwards that it was not so . April 5th . Fine weather and fair wind . Off the coast of Ushant ( an island belonging to France ) , and about to enter the Bay of Biscay , when we were obliged to run out ...
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... board ship to while away the time during so long a voyage : — I. " Ye gentry of England , who live at your ease , Ah ! little ye think of the larks of the seas ! 66 Come , listen to me while a yarn I IN NEW SOUTH WALES . 19.
... board ship to while away the time during so long a voyage : — I. " Ye gentry of England , who live at your ease , Ah ! little ye think of the larks of the seas ! 66 Come , listen to me while a yarn I IN NEW SOUTH WALES . 19.
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affording appearance arrived Australia Australian Agricultural Company banks bark Bay of Biscay beautiful blacks Breeza brush bullocks bush bushrangers cabin called Cape Captain cattle coast colony considerable course creek crossing dark deck Derry distance district drays drought encamped England feet fire flat foot formed gentleman grass ground gum-tree gunyas harbour head hills horses Illawarra Moneroo Islands journey kangaroo Kempsey labour land Liverpool Plains looking Maitland maize McLeay Mooki morning mountains Namoi native neighbourhood night occasion occasionally ourselves Paramatta passed petrifaction Piper's Creek Plymouth Port Jackson Port Macquarie proceeded procure rain ranges reached ride river road rock rocky route sail sawyers seen settlement settler sheep sheep-station ship Shoalhaven Shoalhaven River side soil soon South Wales station steep Sydney timber town track travelling trees Trial Bay Twofold Bay water-holes weather wind
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Стр. 295 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Стр. 4 - Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
Стр. 145 - Under these circumstances, it is evident that the same law cannot be justly and equally administered to the two races, who are continually thrown into hostile contact on the frontiers of the colony. The gun is the only law the black fears: the only power that deters him from murder and plunder; and the only available administrator of punishment for his offences. Those who denounce the squatter as a murderer and land-robber, it has been well said in "Kennedy's Account of Texas," "take no thought of...
Стр. 56 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds. Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deaf'ning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly * death itself awakes...
Стр. 303 - Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Стр. 46 - Still must I on.; for I am as a weed, Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail.
Стр. 46 - The ship, half swallow'd in the black profound. With ceaseless hazard and fatigue opprest, Dismay and anguish every heart possest ; For while, with...
Стр. 43 - I could be well mov'd, if I were as you ; If I could pray to move, prayers would move me : But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true fix'd, and resting quality, There is no fellow in the firmament.
Стр. 217 - Hover in the darkened air ; Like a torrent dashing loud, Bringing famine and despair. And often o'er the level waste The stifling hot winds fly ; Down falls the swain with trembling haste, The gasping cattle die.